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<h2><strong>The Poetry Society Annual Lecture / University of Liverpool Allott Lecture</strong></h2>
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce that multi-award-winning poet Don Mee Choi will be making a rare visit to the UK to give the 2024 Poetry Society Annual Lecture.

This is the latest event in the prestigious Kenneth Allott / Poetry Society Annual Lecture series commissioned in collaboration with the Department of English, University of Liverpool. Each year, the series introduces one of the leading voices in international poetry to share a new lecture, accompanied by a short performance of their poems.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is a highly innovative writer. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. Her books include <em>DMZ Colony</em>, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, <em>The Morning News Is Exciting</em>, and <em>Mirror Nation, </em>which is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2024. Her translations into English of Kim Hyesoon include <em>Autobiography of Death</em> which received the 2018 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

The Poetry Society’s Annual Lecture Series has been proud to commission many of the most influential voices in international poetry. Poets who have given earlier lectures include Ilya Kaminsky, Anne Carson, Valzhyna Mort, Les Murray, Eavan Boland, C K Williams, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic.

<strong>This is an online version of the in-person event at the Tung Auditorium. Tickets for the in-person event are now available via the Tung Auditorium. <a href="https://thetungauditorium.com/events/allott-poetry-society-annual-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Details can be found here</a>
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For further information, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a>

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            [post_content] => Join <strong>Polly Atkin </strong>and <strong>Young Poets Network </strong>for a free online writing workshop, where we'll be writing in response to the soundscapes of the world around us: think birdsong, sound poetry, and more... 

As part of the <a href="https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/soundscapes-and-songworlds-a-poetry-challenge-with-people-need-nature/">Soundworlds and Songscapes challenge</a> on <a href="https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/">Young Poets Network</a>, poet Polly Atkin will be running a poetry workshop for 14-25 year olds, inspired by the sounds of nature. You'll ignite your imagination and find new ways of thinking about the role sound plays in poetry. After the workshop, we encourage you to keep editing your work and submit it to the challenge, which closes on 17 May. 

<b>You will receive a Zoom link 24 hours in advance of the workshop. </b>Email queries to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. 

<strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-237131 alignleft" src="https://poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Polly-Atkin-headshot-533x800.jpg" alt="" width="533" height="800" />Polly Atkin</strong> (FRSL) is a poet and nonfiction writer based in the English Lake District. She has published three poetry pamphlets and two collections – <em>Basic Nest Architecture</em> (Seren: 2017) and <em>Much With Body</em> (Seren: 2021). Her nonfiction includes<em> Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth</em> (Saraband: 2021), a Barbellion-longlisted biography of Dorothy’s later life and illness, and a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, <em>Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better</em> (Sceptre: 2023). In 2023 she and her partner took ownership of historic Grasmere bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.

 
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<em>The Poetry Society is pleased to present its 2024 programme of workshops, in which expert poets will lead generative workshops on a topic which inspires and intrigues them. Our May workshop is <strong>Monstrosity as Diasporic Form </strong>with <b>Will Harris.</b></em>

‘What is born in England but is never English?’ What grew a tail? What leaned over and rested its hands on its knees? An immigrant has a set of complex origins, is from elsewhere; the monster is made, on the other hand, from local mixtures of organic and inorganic materials, repurposed teeth, selenium, lungs, pink lightning, public health concerns. [...] I thought I was writing about an immigrant. I was writing about a monster.

—Bhanu Kapil, <em>Ban en Banlieue</em>

Who rests best as conspiracy // Nostalgia // Uncatalogued // Monster

—Eunsong Kim, <em>Gospel of Regicide</em>

In this workshop, join Will Harris to take the patched-up materials and hand-me-down traces of other struggles, lost homes and lives to construct new monsters of your own.

<strong>Will Harris</strong> is a London-based writer. He is the author of the poetry books <em>RENDANG</em> (2020) and <em>Brother Poem</em> (2023). He co-translated Habib Tengour’s <em>Consolatio</em> with Delaina Haslam in 2022, and helps facilitate the Southbank New Poets Collective with Vanessa Kisuule. <em>Siblings</em>, a conversation between Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Harris and Nisha Ramayya, is published by Monitor Books.

<em>This workshop takes place in-person at The Poetry Café, London. Suitable for all levels of writer. 18+ only.</em>
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